Massachusetts Bible History (1) 
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Alt. = Pequot tribe of Iroquois Indians, Moheecan
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"The Massachusetts, actually Massachusett, tribe of Indians settled
along the Atlantic coast of North America above Boston, had
early responded to the Gospel. John Eliot, a Roxbury minister
who had emigrated from England, saw the need to preach to
them in their own language, but could do so only after fifteen
years devoted to learning their difficult tongue. In 1653 he
wrote: ‘I have had a longing desire, if it be the will of God, that
our Indian language might be sanctified by the translation of the
Holy Scriptures into it’.His decision was without precedent in modern times, for there
was no tradition of such Bible translation for my. pur-
poses, except for the versions of the almost legendary figures of
the [traditionalists] -- Ulfilas, Mesrop, and Cyril and Methodius.
With no record of such experience to guide him, he set out to
commit to writing the Indian language of which Cotton Mather
remarked: ‘The long words must have been stretching them-
selves out from the time of the confusion of tongues at Babel’.Eliot began with the Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments,
--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
and a collection of Scripture passages, as have so many subsequent
Bible translators, and in 1655 Genesis and Matthew were printed
on the little press belonging to Samuel Green, President of
Harvard College. When the New Testament was ready for
printing, a new press, type, and printer were sent over from
England by the Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England. Finally, in 1663,
Eliot’s translation of the entire Bible was printed. It was the first
complete Bible printed in North America."
JE, a Puritan my.]**File: Massachusetts Bible History (3)--1860 S. Bagster [Info only: New England-Indian. Virginian, Massachusett, and Mohegan.]
"Reduced to written form by John Eliot in about 1643.
First publication, the New Testament in 1661 at Cambridge by Samuel
Green and Marmaduke Johnson; tr. by John Eliot. The first New Tes-
tament printed in North America, and the first printed in a North
American Indian language. Bible, 1663. The first whole Bible
translated and printed in a new language as a means of evangelization, and
the first Bible printed in America. Reprinted 1685. The Psalter
and the Gospel of St. John, B. Green and J. Printer (and Indian), Boston,
--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only]
1709; tr. by Experience Mayhew, from Eliot’s text, for use on Martha’s
Vineyard."MASSACHUSETTS--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only: "1663" John 2:19b- 3:29a {correct w/ "Jesus" @ 3:2a}.]
"1655 Genesis Matthew S. Green, Cambridge, Mass.
1661 New Testament 1663 Bible S. Green & M. Johnson,
Cambridge
1664 Psalms publisher?
1685 Bible (revised) S. Green, Cambridge
Translated by John Eliot."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
"1685" Mark 1:2 correct (the prophets).]
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